What is it that you actually want when you have that nudge to set a boundary? Gaining that clarity can influence everything, because boundaries can connect rather than separate!

So often we look outside ourselves for the answers. Looking within strengthens your self-confidence, resilience, and self-trust. Here is a way to teach yourself and your children how to do that with three simple questions.

As we begin to spread our post-pandemic wings out into the world, it is important to honor our pandemic experience. Putting a name to it can make a difference.

When you feel sad, what is your first inclination? Do you want to make it go away, bury it somewhere, or pretend it doesn’t exist? Here are some ideas for redefining the feeling of sad.

With all of the changes happening as we ease out of the pandemic, there is new stress even with the welcomed changes. How can we best support you? What are the challenges you face and the places where you would like answers?

This article by Kholiswa Mendes Pepani and a part of the recent issue of Anti-Racism Daily is an important read.

Trust matters. Trust is the foundation of every relationship. Without it, the relationship is not relational. Here are some fun tools for building trust in your life and in your family.

Lying carries a large charge for most parents. Learn the most important aspect of how you handle it.

I don’t know of any parent who enjoys punishing their child. There are many effective and loving alternatives to punishment for guiding a child into greater responsibility. In fact, punishment backfires.

In the time of COVID, it may seem more challenging to express our love to those we care about. Yet, there are clever yet simple ways to do it. In a pandemic, it is vitally important to make those connections! Be like Cupid this February and throughout the year. Make everyday Valentine’s Day!

As we begin to experience some hope around returning to a non-pandemic world, parents are wondering what, if any, are the long-term impacts of this experience on their children. I would expand that to include all of us. Here are ways to increase resilience so that our kids can rebound!

So often we discount our inner guidance. We don’t listen to that little voice or our gut reaction to a situation we may find ourselves in. Refining your relationship with your inner guidance system creates greater safety and more self-trust.

Here are suggestions for enhancing something that we all may be running short on right now, patience.

Virtual school is challenging for teachers, students, and parents. Because children are sitting in front of screens for extended periods of time, here are some pointers for taking good care of their bodies and minds to maximize their focus and physical well being.

Trigger thoughts stimulate a cascade of feelings. Being aware of them can make a big difference in the amount of stress you experience.

With so much chaos in our country and in our world, you may have reached your threshold. Here are some ways to nourish yourself - all aspects of yourself - so that you can expand your threshold and find what best serves you.

Our perspective changes as our children get older. We get older, too! Here is the long view as my daughter turns twenty-three years old. Here are the things I embrace as “most important.”

We are definitely living in challenging, different, and stressful times. Because what we focus on tends to expand - we get more of it - here are a few ideas to notice and refine your focus to support you right now.

With the addition of COVID-19 and the chaos around the start of the school year, young people are under much more pressure than we may have been as adolescents and teens. Here are some very helpful suggestions for assisting your pre-teen or teen daughter in moving through anxiety.

Guiding children to engage in civil discourse is challenging when the leadership modeled at the national level, in the media, and on social media is so off course. Here are ways to do that even in the midst of a political firestorm.